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For some reason while I was down there trying to get things "copacetic" this song was playing in my head........




ya!

GWB

Here's a story for ya'

This would be October of 2021. I would be 70 at the time.

I have a property that the sewer is always getting stopped up. My jet machine is down. So it's 4" sewer snake with 3/4" cable time. I've got a good Mex manager that can handle most of the problems but a recent flood had backed up the sewer lines and clogged the opening where the sewer falls out and he and his crew could not get the sewer to fall.

As an aside, perhaps you've heard the story of the attorney whose clients were all rich movie stars and politicians. He was holding a major soiree and one of the starlets flushed a sewer rat down the toilet and plugged up the works.
He calls a plumber to come out and fix the problem on an emergency basis. Plumber comes out and after about 30 minutes he tells the attorney, the problem was fixed and handed the attorney the bill. The attorney takes a look at the amount of the bill and being aghast states " Damn, I'm an attorney to the stars and I don't charge this much. The plumber looks at the attorney and sez, matter-of-factly, "I didn't either when I was an attorney!

Anywho, I try never to have to use the service of a plumber.

So I go over........



yup, looks like a problem, but at least the schitt level is below where the park sewer falls out. Just the matter of an 8" pipe clogged up with grease, soap and other stuff. They can't figure out how to get it unplugged cause they can't get a 3/4" cable to bend sufficiently to get in the sewer pipe that is down six feet in the sanitary sewer.

So I get them to get me a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe and climb down in the hole.

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So there I am, 70 year old fart in a 30" sanitary sewer crouched down with my butt about 6" above the schitt line, bending the pvc pipe 90 dgrees hoping it won't snap stabbing the stop-up to get it broke up enough for the schitt to fall, and when the dam was gonna break, being able to scamper up the ladder without being drowned in excrement (among other things)

Took a bit but I got it to fall and I was jazzed. Did not have to spend $1K on a plumber and I showed up a half dozen young vato's.

I left and was driving down a local parkway and passed a pawn shop, and what did I spy!



Passed it by and got about two blocks down the road, and I decided to reward myself for a job well done, so I turned around and went in and bought it. \\

Could not believe, it had been made by a local surf shop in Galveston Texas.

They sold it to me for $300. A bud knew the maker and he told him if I did not buy it he would as he would charge $600 for that stick.

I did, but did not have the ride for carrying board and I had other places to go, so I told them i would be back in the AM to pick it up.

Should have know better. Turned out to be stolen and a police report had been made.

Was I bummed, not at all, I had the pleasure of rewarding myself for a job well done, had the fun of planning and thinking about a trip, but ended up not costing me a dime!

ya!

GWB

Love these girls, going to see them again next month.

That one playing slide guitar can hold her own with Keith Urban

I’m thankful I’m out of the plumbing business! I still have my masters and journeyman license, but let backflow and wastewater go. It was a good trade, but if I had it to do over, I’d have been an electrician

I'm told that tornados can smell trailer patks.